mannov.ru · Moscow
Anton Mannov

AI evangelist · 25+ years in technology

AntonMannov

I build the AI‑agent arena, roomcomm and a few smaller projects. I work at Sber.

Projects closest to my heart

igrastation.com · RU igrastation.ru

AI‑Agent Arena

AI agents (Claude Code, Hermes, OpenClaw and others) play against each other and against people. You can bring your own agent with the arena-play client.

32
games in the catalog
6,068
games played as of 22.09.2026
2,536
of them played by other people’s agents

The story of agents and refugees on Reddit: 22,000 views in the first day.

roomcomm.xyz · REST, MCP, A2A

roomcomm

Rooms where AI agents owned by different people talk to each other. You give your agent a link, it negotiates with someone else’s agent, and you read the conversation. Open source.

32
minutes for the deal in the example
4
agents: buyer, supplier, carrier, bank
3
rooms; an arbiter agent checked the numbers

Example: the agents agreed a credit-financed rebar delivery.

mannov.ru/projects/meditation/

Quiet Room

Sounds for meditation: rain, sea, campfire, wind, a singing bowl, chimes. A timer and a breathing circle. Works in the browser and offline, installs on a phone like an app.

“AI Start with Sber”

Work project. I designed the workshop format and run workshops for large companies. They produced a database of AI use cases covering more than 100 companies across industries.

Press: Lenta.ru, Vedomosti (in Russian)

CV 1997 — now

Since 09.2023: Head of AI Transformation for Clients at Sber, Moscow Bank. Before that: Rosneft, Bell Integrator, I-Teco. A patent for an invention and a utility model, talks and hackathon mentoring.

Work

Sber, BSG, Rosneft, Bell Integrator, I-Teco
09.2023 — now

Sber

Head of AI Transformation for Clients, Moscow Bank

  • Designed the “AI Start with Sber” workshop format and run workshops for large companies. They produced a database of AI use cases in business processes covering more than 100 companies across industries. Press: Lenta.ru, Vedomosti (in Russian).
  • Advise corporate clients on generative AI: demos, ideation sessions, hackathons, training.
  • Earlier at Sber: technical account management for GigaChat business projects and voice assistants on SaluteBot and GigaChat in the Salute division, then Moscow digital services and client digital development.
2022–2023

BSG, irrigation machines

Project author

IIoT system for remote control and monitoring of hundreds of center-pivot irrigation machines on more than 14,000 hectares in Russia and the CIS. In 2024 GigaChat voice control was added on top of it (SberDevices release).

02.2019–02.2022

Rosneft, Digital Cluster (Sibintek)

Project Director

Projects in natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and cognitive search: digital assistants and chatbots for internal departments, a voice assistant for field staff, incident and production monitoring.

2017–2023

Chatbots

Owner and project author

Text and voice bots for all kinds of tasks: coffee-to-go orders, procurement, surveys, volunteering and more.

In 2018 the volunteer bot won an international social projects competition.

10.2017–11.2018

Bell Integrator

Project Manager

Development, implementation and testing of banking products: planning, delivery, Scrum teams.

06.2012–12.2016

I-Teco

Implementation Team Lead

Implementation and integration of government and enterprise information systems, from design through acceptance testing and support. Federal and Moscow city clients, a major telecom operator.

1997–2010

Early years

IT roles in commercial companies and government bodies: wrote software, built networks and servers, set up offices from scratch, implemented electronic voting and live broadcasting systems.

Patents

2023, 2007
2023
Patent for invention RU 2804961: method of controlling a self-propelled multi-tower irrigation machine with an emergency stop alarm system (BSG).
2007
Utility model RU 59296: automated system for clearing and billing operations (BCS).

Talks

10 entries, 12.2022 — 10.2026
10.2026
“Gladiators of Silicon” podcast with Vlad Budlyansky: can AI agent competitions become a sport. Episode (in Russian)
03.2026
HotelTech 2026: “How digital transformation is changing tourism”, panel. About the conference
11.2025
NemoConf 2025, a conference on data and customer experience in travel. Talk: “Near-future AI transformation trends: from language models to business agents”. Video, from 1:39:39
09.2025
“AI Agents 2025” meetup, Lomonosov cluster: panel on the future of agentic systems. Meetup page
11.2024
RED CONF, lecture “Generative AI in game development”. Video
10.2024
School No. 199, Moscow: a lesson on prompt engineering for 10th-grade IT classes. School note
04.2024
Moscow Tourism Hackathon, mentor
04.2024
DeepHack.Agents, MIPT AI Center hackathon: GigaChat mentor. Hackathon page
12.2023
Phystech GigaChat Challenge, MIPT and Sber hackathon: expert and jury member. Hackathon page
12.2022
Yugra Hackathon “Khantaton-2022” (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), mentor. About the hackathon

Contact

Write to me on Telegram or by email: anton.mannov@gmail.com.